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Taliban continues to suppress human rights, particularly those of women, i
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Taliban, under its rule in Afghanistan continues to suppress the basic human rights, particularly the rights of women, as the females in the country remain deprived of education, employment and a lot more.
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Pakistan: HRCP calls for establishment of national commission for rights o
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
HRCP's director Farah Zia recalled that the national commission for minorities that was established in 2020 failed to meet the demands of minorities. She stressed the need for an autonomous commission formed along the lines of the Paris Principles.
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Taliban intensified suppression of human rights in Afghanistan: Human Righ
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Human Rights Watch has released a new report stating that the Taliban has intensified its suppression of human rights, especially women's rights, in Afghanistan, Afghanistan-based Khaama Press reported.
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Pakistan's caretaker govt used threats, abuse, and detention to coerce Afg
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Pakistan's caretaker government clamped down on dissenting media, the political opposition, and nongovernmental organisations in 2023, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2024 on Wednesday.
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UAE: Abdullah bin Zayed congratulates Morocco on winning presidency of Hum
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, congratulated the Kingdom of Morocco on the winning of the presidency of the UN Human Rights Council by Morocco's Permanent Representative to the UN.
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UN Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor voices concern over reports of police ha
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
She said that "spurial criminal complaints" against the peaceful protesters should be dropped.
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NHRC serves notice to Telangana govt over reported suicide by engineering
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that an engineering girl student died by jumping from the fifth floor of her college in Rangareddy district, Telangana on January 5.
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Canada: Baloch, Sindhis, Pashtun protest against Pak military atrocities,
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The joint protest in Toronto was called by the Baloch Human Rights Council of Canada, World Sindhi Council and Pashtun Council Canada to condemn Islamabad's apartheid policy of violence and repression against the Baloch, Sindhis and Pashtuns in the strongest terms.
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Himadri Speciality Chemical Ltd Earns EcoVadis 2023 Silver Medal
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], January 5: Himadri Speciality Chemical Ltd, a global speciality chemical conglomerate is pleased to announce that it has achieved a prestigious Silver Medal from EcoVadis, one of the world's leading agencies for business sustainability rating at global scale. T
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China organising 'media tours' to change narrative about human rights abus
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Aiming to change the narrative about the Xinjiang region where China is accused of committing grave human rights abuses, Beijing is organising so-called media tours with friendly countries to somehow propagate a different version of the region, a report by Al Jazeera stated.
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First-ever Iranian opposition figure speaks at Knesset
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
"We have to get together and be united against this terrorism if we claim our hearts beat for humanity," Beheshti, a journalist and human rights activist, told the Tazpit Press Service shortly before he joined other Israeli officials discussing the war at a Knesset event.
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Baloch protesters vow to continue protests as Pak caretaker PM calls agita
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Responding to the media on the issue of police violence against Baloch protesters in Islamabad, the caretaker premier said that some of the people--media persons included--were trying to "mislead everyone, turning themselves into fake heroes of human rights and damaging the state".
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